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The Twitterverse Thinks Google will pay $507m to acquire Twitter

With rumours circulating about Google being in late-stage talks to acquire Twitter, we asked Twitter what they thought the final cost to Google would be, while offering a shiny prize for the correct guess:

"Google buying Twitter? Guess closest $ price, winner gets $1 to spend at @firebox for every $1m. Tag guesses #firebox"*

Responses so far have ranged from "three goats and a cow" to $billions. The current mean average from @firebox followers (not including animals, sorry Daisy) is $507m.

Got an opinion on the price of Twitter? Send us a tweet @firebox and tag your guess #firebox.

Watch this space for results.

*First, closest answer wins. @firebox decision final. Srsly.

New Product Test Helps Fireboxer!

We had the opportunity to test out a UK exclusive... and stock controller Matt Shone jumped (or ran) at the chance to trial Droidwear's SatNav Shoes. Matt is a semi professional runner - he's even represented Great Britain in various long distance events. He runs twice per day roughly covering 80-90 miles per week! He also isn't always conventional when it come to his training as quoted by one of his club mates: "Lunchtime runs would often include a stop off at the curry house to pick up the week's lunch supply, so the run back would be 2 or 3 miles with a carrier bag full of curries."

So instead of running his usual route we dropped him off in the middle of Woking - so all he had to do was put in the Woking postcode then his home postcode... and start running. The shoes did the talking (telling him where to go) while he did the w.. running!

Apart from a few near accidents with cyclists Mr Shone did pretty well and he seamed very pleased with not having to worry about the route. "These shoes are great - I no longer have to spend time planning routes and memorising them - I can concentrate on thinking about my tea whilst running!"

SatNav Shoes are ONLY available at Firebox.com!

Friday FAIL

It's Friday again! Hooray! That means FAIL time here at Firebox HQ. 

Baby Name FAIL

Cannibalism FAIL

Origin of meat FAIL

Grandma Death Make-up FAILl

All pictures from failblog

Under The Table, Drinking Black Label

Finnish artisté, Mari Kasurinen (link!), is an amazing (and literal) plastic surgeon - but you won't find her reworking Michael's nose or Katie's bosom. She's more at home sculpting Fizzy's hooves or Galaxy's mane to resemble famous pop culture characters from movies, cartoons and music.

Can you recognise some of our favourites?

Morph Animation Competition

If you’re a budding animator or just have a thing for Morph, you’re going to love our new competition. It’s a film festival with a difference, as every entry must feature the lovable plasticine character and be in stop-motion animation. Apart from that (and films being less than 2 mins, we’re not looking for epics), there are no limits to what you can do. We’re seeking the weirdest and funniest Morph adventures to impress Aardman (the creators of Morph), who are helping us with the judging process.

We have some amazing prizes for the best entries...

1st Prize
One lucky winner will get a one-off signed original sketch of a scene from their film by Peter Lord, Creative Director of Aardman and co-creator of Morph. The sketch will be framed in a gold-disc style with a plaque.

2nd Prize
A copy of Stop Motion Pro6.5 High Definition software worth £429.99 (as used by Aardman), and an Animation Station.

Runner-up Prize
An Animation Station

So if you, or anyone you know is a budding animator and wants to be in for a chance of winning one of those amazing prizes then simply upload you short video before 30th April 2009.

Visit or Morphmation competition page for more information.

Goodluck!